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Daffodil
Honey had always found daffodils to be funny flowers. "Like teacups!" he'd say, and pretended to drink tea from the center. Mori smiled and for Honey's birthday, sent him two-dozen daffodils. Honey laughed and asked him to a tea party.
Mori came, of course, and so did the rest of the Host Club, to celebrate Honey's nineteenth birthday. Haruhi asked about the daffodils, and when the joke was explained, she laughed with the rest, but for an entirely different reason.
"You don't need twenty-five daffodils!" she told Honey without reprimand. "One is enough, don't you think?"
Honey looked puzzled and informed Haruhi that two-times-twelve was twenty-four, not twenty-five, and if she was a special student, shouldn't she know that?
Haruhi gave that secret little smile that told everyone she knew something they did not, but Honey didn't press the matter.
Mori did.
"You," she said later in the hallway as the rest of the club was filing out. "You're the first daffodil."
Daffodils mean several things: Respect, Regard, Unrequited Love, You're the Only One, the Sun is Always Shining when I'm with You.
Exported 05/17/07: I'm not sure why, but it seems to be unclear to people that this is not Honey's ficlet, but Mori's. The daffodil represents Mori's feelings toward his cousin. The yellow tulip is Honey's flower.